CNN International and MultiChoice announced at the end of last week that the deadline for entries for the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Awards have been extended to Wednesday, 22 February 2012, and the judging to take place in April this year.
30 Jan 2012 10:02NEW YORK: A US-based journalist convicted on politicized terrorism charges in Ethiopia was sentenced to death in absentia yesterday, 26 January 2012, while two other Ethiopian journalists received heavy prison sentences in connection with their coverage of banned opposition groups, according to news reports.
27 Jan 2012 10:26
[Walter Wafula] Finally, there's a publication which gives Ugandans more space to express their views and frustrations on just about anything in a bigger way.
25 Jan 2012 14:02JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN: First Grade Judge Duoth Kulang on Saturday, 21 January 2012, ruled the case opened against
The Citizen in favour of the newspaper.
23 Jan 2012 12:15
[Walter Wafula] Vision Group, a multimedia house in Uganda, expects
The Kampala Sun to lift its advertising revenue as it picks up in the market, says the head of marketing, Susan Nsibirwa, in an interview last week.
23 Jan 2012 09:54Reporters Without Borders is worried by events of the past week affecting the media in the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland, in which a total of 25 journalists were arrested and a television station, HornCable TV, was closed in Hargeisa.
17 Jan 2012 15:24[Andrew Bagala] KAMPALA, UGANDA: A local journalists' organisation has petitioned the Police Professional Standards Unit to take action against Lira police officers who beat up a
Daily Monitor journalist during the protests in Lira over continued load shedding.
16 Jan 2012 13:26 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) have expressed deep concern over perpetual attacks against journalists by Somaliland police, who continue to arrest and detain reporters. Some journalists have also been barred from traveling around Somaliland to cover stories.
11 Jan 2012 11:52Khartoum: Security authorities in Sudan suspended on Monday [2 January 2012] the publication of the daily newspaper
Ra'y al-Sha'b, hours after its copies were confiscated.
4 Jan 2012 12:01
[Walter Wafula] WRENmedia, a United Kingdom-based a specialist communications company is set to sharpen reporting skills of journalists covering climate change issues in Eastern Africa, according to Susanna Thorp, director of the firm.
3 Jan 2012 09:07The weekly government newspaper
Kenya Today, which was jointly published by the departments of Information and Communications, ceased operations on Friday, 16 December 2011, three years after it was launched.
19 Dec 2011 11:54[Walter Wafula] The Kampala Sun, a new publication by Vision Group, is the latest addition to Uganda's newsstands. The tabloid has been revived seven years after the New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited (Vision Group), published and launched its first copy, although it didn't live to celebrate its first birthday.
13 Dec 2011 15:06 
[Theresa Mallinson] There are currently 52 journalists imprisoned in Africa, in nine countries. More than half the jailed journalists are held in that scourge of media freedom - Eritrea. The most disturbing news to come out of CPJ's recent report on journalists behind bars, is that the trend of imprisoning journalists - often on trumped-up charges - has seen a sharp increase over the last decade.
12 Dec 2011 10:05The High Court of Tanzania has resolved the case involving former minister for good governance, Wilson Masilingi and the local Swahiili newspaper,
RAI and its columnist, Prince Bagenda. The ruling followed a defamation case that was filed by Masilingi claiming that the writer and the newspaper published a defamatory statement in its edition of 2 August 2005.
18 Nov 2011 11:19
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